Nestled deep in the bowels of the French underground lies
this obscure rarity, Edmund Kemper Part 1: La Mort De Ma
Vie. Only to be unearthed by the most discriminating
gore freaks on social media (Harry Collinsâ Hardgore Core
page to be exact) and with the help of Jason Toth's Toxic
Filth Video (PM them or Jason Toth on Facebook to get the
movie) is now available on DVD for purchase. Due to the
interest in the Edmund Kemper films (there are 3 of them),
the director and star, Laurent Tissier, has been recently
gathering up information and uploading trailers for the
three part series.

Edmund Kemper Part 1
and the rest of the series, from my understanding, were only
released on VHS so the transfers are VHS quality. The movies
are in French language as well but discriminating gore
hounds need not to worry as the dialogue doesn't interfere
with you not understanding the plot as itâs very straight
forward. The story has a lone necrophile basically violating
a female corpse in his basement by various means.
Occasionally he goes out and kills a random passer-by for
his sick pleasure. Tissier has recently uploaded Edmund
Kemper Part 1 to YouTube with English subs for those who
deem it necessary.

Obvious inspiration for the movie are taken from
Nekromantik as Jorg Buttergeit and Manfred Jelsinki are
mentioned in the credits. We get lots of perverted acts
featured here as the necrophile's obvious hatred for the
female corpse he has in the basement is evident, as much as
his pleasure in desecrating it as he makes loud grunts and
moans while doing so. Our sicko (played by director Laurent
Tissier) lovingly performs cunnilingus on the dead female's
black rotting genitals with slurping/sucking sounds and all!
He cuts off one of her decayed titties, cooks it and eats
it, masturbates to her severed head and takes a hand saw to
the corpse.

Edmund Kemper the real life serial killer was used as merely
an inspiration for the film as no resemblance is actually
verified or implied. We get some great goregrind courtesy of
Last Days of Humanity and some great metal courtesy of Area.
Surprisingly, there was also an original soundtrack released
for this which is very cool. A lot of the other musical
score sounds like random Halloween stock footage music to me
-- stuff I used to buy and play in the background while
giving out candy on Halloween with the moans and screams and
different eerie sounds, but the intro music stands out and
sounds similar to the theme from Nekromantik.

With some great solid imagery, visuals and imaginative ideas
Edmund Kemper Part 1 is a solid underground feast of
sickness and depravity that has shed a few shards of light
through the cracks to be discovered by a whole new fan base
of degenerate horror freaks. I'm happy Laurent will be
releasing the other two entries in the series as well as
another project he is involved in titled The Last
Survivor, another rare underground survivalist horror
treat. Stay tuned for more nicely fucked up French
underground horror/gore!